On Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 5:09:14 PM UTC-4, Ian Denhardt wrote:
>
> Quoting Krzysztof Sakrejda (2017-11-02 05:36:56) 
>
> >    Thanks, I guess that does mean it'll work as long as the floating 
> point 
> >    implementation is the same. 
>
>
> Basically everything uses IEEE-754 these days,


This I am aware of but this is working with statistical software 
(mc-stan.org) that
regularly runs on clusters of varying vintage and we have plenty of users
who don't talk to us so I wouldn't be surprised if it became an issue.  
Recently
somebody on the users list was asking for installation help on a cluster 
with
no internet connection so...  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 

> so the representation of 
> floating point values isn't really any less portable than it is for 
> signed integers (where theoretically the standards allow for one's 
> compliment and signed-magnitude, but you'll be hard pressed to find 
> anything but two's compliment): 
>
>     
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic#IEEE_754:_floating_point_in_modern_computers
>  
>
> You're welcome. 
>

Thanks! Krzysztof
 

>
> -Ian 
>

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